Towards the end of a “fleeting interview” at the UUP conference yesterday, Jim Fitzpatrick asked the Conservative Party leader David Cameron whether he had confidence in the House of Commons Speaker Michael Martin and the Office of the Speaker. His answer – “I want to have that confidence” – clearly implied that he doesn’t at present. And he’s not alone..
If you want to get a flavour of the proceedings at the Political Studies Association conference on its opening day, then the Storify collation below will bring you some of the images, tweets and sounds of the day. Particular highlights included: the Opening Plenary with David Blunkett, Peter Riddell and Matthew Flinders; and the late [...] read our review »
It’s the quiet ones you have to watch, they say. When I last saw Eamonn Namcarrow, back in the mid 1980s he was a congenial, good-natured and highly sociable young lad. The next time was 26 years later, in Lavery’s Gin Palace in Bradbury Place. He’d just brought out his first book, Holywood Star about [...] read our review »